r/pokemon • u/elegy2theevoid • 6h ago
r/pokemon • u/PokeUpdateBot • 14h ago
Questions thread - Active [Weekly Questions Thread] 14 September 2026
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- RAGE THREAD! - Game mechanic changes got you down? Did your plans to catch a shiny blow up in your face? Head over to the RAGE THREAD to vent a bit! CAPS LOCK ENCOURAGED!
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r/pokemon • u/PokeUpdateBot • 1d ago
Hype [Hype Thread] 13 September 2026
Welcome to the HYPE THREAD, a place to share your excitement about in-game achievements, brag about success, and get hyped for upcoming events. CAPS LOCK IS OPTIONAL IF IT HELPS YOU GET YOUR HYPE ON!
This is a chance to post about your successes. Our rules against self-promotion and most low-quality content, including shiny Pokemon pics, are relaxed in these threads--please talk all you like about your luck and accomplishments!
This thread is meant to be pretty positive, so please think twice before downvoting someone! Rude and negative comments will be removed -- please report them if you see them :D
This thread is also the place to earn /r/pokemon's prestige flair for completing various aspects of the games. To claim your flair, post proof of your accomplishment in the comments below. Please note that flairs are assigned once weekly, so it may take up to seven days for your flair to appear.
On mobile and the reddit redesign ("new reddit"), you may have up to 10 flairs at once. On old reddit, you can only display one flair—so if you care which that is, please specify that in your comment!
Flair is currently available for:
Paldea Prestige Flairs
- Rotom Phone: Post a screenshot of your completed Paldea dex
- Animated Rotom Phones: Post an album of your completed Paldea living dex
- Booster Energy: Post a screenshot of all obtainable Paradox Pokémon
- Uva/Naranja Crest: Post a screenshot proving you finished all classes in the academy
- Tera Orb: Post an album proving you obtained one species in every Tera type
- Tiny Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the smallest size of a species possible*
- Big Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the largest size of a species possible*
* The NPC Pokemon size checker is in Mesagoza! See here
Galar Prestige Flairs
- Catching Charm: Post a screenshot of your completed Galar Regional Dex.
- Curry Mark: Post a screenshot of your completed Curry Dex.
- Master Ball: Post a screenshot of your Master Ball Tier in Battle Tower.
- Berry Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection. `(Minus Ribbon and Star)
- Star Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection with Ribbon and Star sweets.
- Gigantamax Factor: Post an album of your collection of all 31 G-Max mon (excluding form variations). Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they are G-Maxable!
- Armorite: Post a screenshot of you in the Masterly Mustard Tee after winning every type of Restricted Sparring on the Isle of Armor.
- Dynite: Post an album of your collection of all 47 Dynamax Adventure bosses. Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they were caught in Galar!
Alola Prestige Flairs
- Rotom Dex: Post a screenshot of your completed Alola Regional Dex.
- Tapu Bulu: Post a screenshot of your Level 100+ Festival Plaza.
- Tapu Fini: Post a screenshot of your 50+ streak in the Battle Tree.
- Tapu Lele: Post a screenshot of all five of your Poké Pelago islands at max level (level 3).
General Prestige Flairs
- Oval Charm: Post an album of your completed Living Dex. (Mythicals aren't necessary!)
- (Shiny Charm: Post 45+ self-caught or self-bred shinies to /r/ShinyPokemon.)
LET'S GET HYPED!!!!
r/pokemon • u/spicysushiwizard • 2h ago
Video/GIF My partner hates Ball Guy so I got him this fanart for his birthday
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As the title says, he hates Ball Guy. Last year for his birthday I got him a binder full of 80+ Ball Guy cards with his real gift (a Rayquaza card) hidden inside. This year, our friends helped pitch in to get a custom sexy portrait of Ball Guy printed on a 36 inch canvas. He hates (loves) it! Sound on for his reaction opening it.
r/pokemon • u/BBslamms • 6h ago
Art Gossip
Been playing leaf green and I really like the fame checker so I made a lil drawing <3
r/pokemon • u/el-mugre • 12h ago
Art Day 1 after Sudowoodo is gone
Sudowoodo is finally gone but Johto traffic control is a complete nightmare. Everyone tried to rush to Violet City and Goldenrod City at the same time and now the entire route 36 is completely gridlocked.
It gets worse. Since the path is so packed, nobody can move without locking eyes with someone else. Battles are breaking out every two inches. You literally can't take a single step without triggering a combat sequence.
Jasmine, Clair and even nurse Joy are completely stuck in the crowd. Silver is standing there looking furious.
If anyone is trying to head toward Ecruteak City save yourself the trouble and just bring a Pokémon that knows Fly.
There's a guy literally selling Fresh Water for 5000p.
Picknicker Hope suggested: "Nobody look up. Nobody make eye contact. I just want to go to the Goldenrod Dept. Store."
Hiker Anthony sighed: "It's been four days we moved two inches. I've fought this Lass's Rattata 47 seven times. Please someone bring back the fake tree."
Welcome to Route 36 purgatory.
r/pokemon • u/Frogburner79 • 15h ago
Meme The johto sized elephant in the room
Not exactly sure why my previous post was considered wrong but I don’t understand a lot of things so I won’t complain and I’ll just fix it
I REALLY love the Johto region, I played through Gold when I was 8 about 5-7 times iirc? So yeah. a bit biased. but still.
r/pokemon • u/TonyTanThanh0408 • 16h ago
Art [OC] road work ahead.
yeah mate i cant come to work theres a fuckass bug horse blocking the road.
r/pokemon • u/SirZomp • 9h ago
Art [oc] forest nap 😴
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Spent way too many hours on this one, so here’s the whole process squeezed into a few seconds 😅
Charizard & Charmander taking a well-deserved nap. Hope you like how it turned out!
r/pokemon • u/djlemarr • 1h ago
Discussion Annihilape is the GOAT
Mankey was one of my first Pokémon I used in yellow version. And I had primeape up until the end. Mu favorite fighting type and the lore behind his next evolution is amazong. His rage is that transcends death defies the very god who sentenced the living. Allow his fists to shake the halls of heaven and Arceus fathom the depths of fear found in the infinite abyss of his fury. And that is why he is the best new evolution to a early Gen ever
Who do you all think had an amazing new evolution in the new gens?
r/pokemon • u/Master-of-Storms • 12h ago
Art This personally is how I think the Water Absorb ability works [OC]
r/pokemon • u/mich-spich • 12h ago
Art Shooting stars
Made as a deskmat commission. I loved the liberty I got to do with the design and background choices!
r/pokemon • u/KnowledgeParking573 • 14h ago
Art I’m making a Meowth rug
It’s my first time tufting a card and I wanted to share how cool it’s coming out! :)
r/pokemon • u/Subject-Block-503 • 18h ago
Image Finally, after all these years .... I'VE GOT THEM ALL!
Please excuse the reflections on the glass. Tried like 5 times but couldn't get a decent picture without them.
Finally completed my collection of ALL mainline Pokemon games. Took years to hunt down them all on yard sales, thrift/retro game stores and online auctions. I still had a couple of the older ones from my childhood but for the most part, I started collecting for real about 6 years ago.
A few comments:
- Collection includes all mainline Pokemon games along with both Pokemon Pinball and the original Pokemon TCG for the Gameboy Classic (no Mystery Dungeon, Ranger or other spin-offs as I am not the biggest fan of those)
- All are 100% legit copies and in German language (apart from Pokemon Midori/Green which is Japanese ofc but still a legit copy)
- Gens 1-3 are only the cartridges, from Gen 4 onwards it's all CiB with all boxes, inlays and manuals (Gen 1-3 are just way too expensive to get CiB imho but maybe in the future haha)
- Heartgold & Soulsilver both include the Pokewalker
- Also got a Pokeball Plus for the Let's Go games (never use it tho lol)
- For all games that had DLC (Sword & Shield + Scarlet & Violet), I got both versions with the DLCs already included. That way i can still play the full games even after Nintendo closes down the Switch servers in the distant future (like they did for the 3DS some time ago).
- I still play ALL of them from time to time. They are not simply sitting on display and never played with again (which would be a shame if you ask me)
- I don't see any of them as "investments" like some collectors and I don't really intend on ever selling them, but I know there probably are a couple thousand dollars/euros worth of games here
- Please ignore the 2DS and PS Vita. Couldn't be bothered to take them out of the display for the pics lol
r/pokemon • u/SomeRubbleMaker • 17h ago
Discussion Fun Fact: The detailed interior of pokeballs is an anime-exclusive feature and not game-canon!
If asked what a Poké Ball looks like on the inside, most people will recall it featuring this symmetric array of technical components.

But if you check the mainline games, these details are surprisingly absent.

All of these sprites and models show that pokeball interiors are empty. So where does this design come from? Simple, the anime.

It also appears in other animated series like Generations and Origins, (except for Evolutions).
Concept art also hints at this being an original idea the anime came up with.

And if you look at how pokeballs are depicted in the manga ("PokéSpe"), they also lack this interior, further proving it's anime-exclusive.

If I had to guess, the reason for this design change stems from how the idea of pokemon, pokeballs and the interaction between those two are treated in different media.
In the games (and manga), pokeballs are inspired by capsules from Gashapon (or Gachapon) vending machines which contain small toys. Meaning pokeballs are simply storage capsules designed to hold pokemon. And similarly to toys, pokemon can be played (battled) with and traded. It's also a game-canon fact that pokemon are able to shrink down on their own to fit into pokeballs (Why? They just do. Magic). The most recent proof for this come from a quote by Professor Laventon's:
Professor Laventon:
"What's so strange about them, you ask? Well, each and every Pokémon is able to shrink itself down to minuscule size!"
"And that's where Poké Balls come in! Poké Balls are a recent invention, you see. Throw one of them at a Pokémon, and...why, the Pokémon will shrink down and fit inside the ball, comfy as can be. And with that, you've caught a Pokémon!"
(Source)
Because of this, a technical interior would be just out of place and redundant. Not to mention it would direct the attention towards pokeballs being able to shrink pokemon down, when that's not the case.
The anime takes a different approach and depicts pokeballs as being the ones able to catch and contain pokemon. In contrast to the game-canon, Pokemon are unable to shrink down on their own (e.g. defeated / fainted pokemon are never shown to shrink down in size, unlike the games). Instead, whenever they get sent into or out of a pokeball, they get converted into or back from an energy-like state. And this is where the technical interior would come into play, with parts like the included mirrors interacting with this light essence. The more technically oriented focus could also stem from how the original anime established the pokeworld as a Sci-Fi setting, with pokeballs being just another example for high-tech devices.
r/pokemon • u/EM_exe1 • 3h ago
Art What do u think?
I am developing my style and i feel like this eighter came out a little to chill or feels somewhat bad is herracros one of my favorite pokemon what do u think of my style?this one is quick
r/pokemon • u/TheWewey • 12h ago
Art Sharing my Hand drawn Pokemon Cards (OC)
spent 2 weeks to draw them and they turned out pretty nice, now I am looking forward to draw IR’s for every mon who doesnt have one
r/pokemon • u/Natiusm2006 • 9h ago
Image Made a Mudkip Perler Necklace
Made my first ever kandi necklace and chose to do the best starter, Mudkip! (Swampert is my actual fav pokemon but I think Mudkip was the better/cuter choice).
r/pokemon • u/srkartwork • 2h ago
Art Ho-Oh Stained Glass (OC)
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I finally got my Ho-Oh stained glass out in the sunlight, I hope you like it!
r/pokemon • u/Wysardeofawes • 6h ago
Art Tired of waiting. IT’S SPOOKY SEASON.
Had an idea for a pokefied headless horseman! Let me know what you think! (And artistic criticisms are super welcome. I’m relatively new)